(Header image credit: Paul Robeson by Neil Libbert 1958, NPG x136292) Behind the scenes of all museums, you will find collection assistants and volunteers working hard to improve the Museum’s knowledg...

Around 1880, men cutting peat at Dejbjerg, in western Jutland (Denmark), began pulling bronze pieces out of the bog that shone as if they were new. Some assumed it was gold. Others had a more down-to-...

Strong muscle attachments and healed fractures show that royal women could use the weapons they were buried with — but also that high status didn’t prevent hard